The Juggler: Franklin Roosevelt as Wartime Statesman

by Warren F. Kimball

Overview

Here Warren Kimball explores Roosevelt's vision of the postwar world by laying out the nature and development of FDR's "war aims"--his long-range political goals. As the face of eastern Europe and the world changes before our eyes, Roosevelt's goals, dismissed during the Cold War as impractical, seem less unrealistic today.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781400843794
Publisher:	Princeton University Press
Publication date:	08/08/1994
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	320
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About the Author

Warren F. Kimball is Robert Treat Professor of History at Rutgers University (Newark College). His books include Churchill & Roosevelt, The Complete Correspondence (Princeton).

Table of Contents

	List of Illustrations	ix
	Preface	xi
	Introduction: On Diplomatic History and FDR	3
I.	The "Juggler": The Foreign Policy of Franklin Roosevelt	7
II.	"They Don't Come Out Where You Expect": Roosevelt Reacts to the German-Soviet War, 1941	21
III.	Lend-Lease and the Open Door: The Temptation of British Opulence, 1937-1942	43
IV.	Casablanca: The End of Imperial Romance	63
V.	"The Family Circle": Roosevelt's Vision of the Postwar World	83
VI.	"Baffled Virtue...Injured Innocence": The Western Hemisphere as Regional Role Model	107
VII.	"In Search of Monsters to Destroy": Roosevelt and Colonialism	127
VIII.	Naked Reverse Right: Roosevelt, Churchill, and Eastern Europe, from tolstoy to Yalta--and a Little Beyond	159
IX.	"This Persistent Evangel of Americanism"	185
	Notes	201
	Bibliography	279
	Index	297

What People are Saying About This

From the Publisher

"Well written, amusing, and instructive. This is a welcome contribution to Roman cultural history and to the culture of Roman politics. There does not exist any other work in English that covers such a vast field, and covers it with erudition and elegance."—Jerzy Linderski, Paddison Professor of Latin, University of North Carolina

Jerzy Linderski

Well written, amusing, and instructive. This is a welcome contribution to Roman cultural history and to the culture of Roman politics. There does not exist any other work in English that covers such a vast field, and covers it with erudition and elegance.
— Jerzy Linderski, Paddison Professor of Latin, University of North Carolina

Editorial Reviews

"Warren Kimball has produced a remarkable book, detailed, even encyclopaedic in its archival knowledge, ... illuminating."—-D. Cameron Watt, The Times Literary Supplement

"A finely drawn portrait.... Kimball valiantly boxes with Roosevelt's shadow to determine the assumptions which underpinned the President's personal diplomacy with Britain and the Soviet Union, and his vision for postwar Europe."—-Patricia M. Clavin, Reviews in American History

"The Juggler illustrates Kimball's mastery of Roosevelt's wartime diplomacy and the vast amount of documentary and secondary evidence he brings to the subject. . . . [These are] finely crafted essays on Franklin Roosevelt as wartime statesman."—-Patricia M. Clavin, Reviews in American History

"The great might-have-been is whether postwar Soviet-American relations would have been different had Roosevelt lived. All through The Juggler, Professor Kimball is unafraid to speculate.... [A] lively history."—-Herbert Mitgang, The New York Times

From the Publisher

The great might-have-been is whether postwar Soviet-American relations would have been different had Roosevelt lived. All through The Juggler, Professor Kimball is unafraid to speculate.... [A] lively history.

The New York Times - Herbert Mitgang

The Juggler illustrates Kimball's mastery of Roosevelt's wartime diplomacy and the vast amount of documentary and secondary evidence he brings to the subject. . . . [These are] finely crafted essays on Franklin Roosevelt as wartime statesman. . . .

Reviews in American History - Patricia M. Clavin

Warren Kimball has produced a remarkable book, detailed, even encyclopaedic in its archival knowledge, ... illuminating.

The Times Literary Supplement - D. Cameron Watt

The great might-have-been is whether postwar Soviet-American relations would have been different had Roosevelt lived. All through The Juggler, Professor Kimball is unafraid to speculate.... [A] lively history.
— Herbert Mitgang

The New York Times

The Juggler illustrates Kimball's mastery of Roosevelt's wartime diplomacy and the vast amount of documentary and secondary evidence he brings to the subject. . . . [These are] finely crafted essays on Franklin Roosevelt as wartime statesman. . . .
— Patricia M. Clavin

Reviews in American History

Warren Kimball has produced a remarkable book, detailed, even encyclopaedic in its archival knowledge, ... illuminating.
— D. Cameron Watt

The Times Literary Supplement